Ada Smith could be back in hot water over hot coffee.The latest episode of anger mismanagement for Smith, whom the Daily News dubbed "the Wild Woman of Albany" in 2003, had the Queens Democrat allegedly splashing hot coffee on a staffer who questioned her dieting success.

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Smith allegedly tossed her cup of coffee at Jackson and grabbed her by the hair, sources familiar with the probe said.Smith denied the accusation."The claims that have been made by a disgruntled former employee are completely and utterly false," Smith said yesterday.Jackson had worked for Smith for only about a month, making her one of more than 200 staffers who have cycled through the lawmaker's office in 17 years.

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Smith's hot temper has made headlines before: . In 2003, troopers cited her for gunning her car through a security checkpoint at an Albany garage, nearly mowing down a trooper who had asked for ID. . In 1998, city cops subdued Smith with Mace after she allegedly bit a police officer following a traffic incident on a Bushwick, Brooklyn, street. . Two years before that, she was accused of menacing an aide with a meat cleaver.

LOAD-DATE: March 23, 2006 SHE'S HOME!POL CLEARED OF ETHICS RAP Daily News (New York) March 8, 2005 Tuesday Copyright 2005 Daily News, L.P. Daily News (New York) March 8, 2005 Tuesday SPORTS FINAL EDITION SECTION: NEWS; Pg.16 LENGTH: 285 words HEADLINE: SHE'S HOME!POL CLEARED OF ETHICS RAP BYLINE: BY JOE MAHONEY DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU CHIEF BODY: ALBANY - Sen.Ada Smith (D-Queens) was cleared yesterday by the Legislative Ethics Committee of a charge that she lives outside her district.A former aide to Smith had accused her of living in the Lindsay Park homes in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - out of her district and out of her borough.

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"He can't get a job, so he sits at home and dreams this stuff up," Smith told the Daily News.

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Ada Smith was convicted yesterday of blowing past a security checkpoint after cursing the state police officer who dared to try to stop her.

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But Smith maintained her innocence and said she would appeal."I believe in the criminal justice system," she said after the two-hour trial."The judge made a decision and I can't argue with him."

Kavarovic said Smith defied his order to stop her state-owned 2001 Crown Victoria in the state-owned garage and show identification.

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The lawmaker presented a novel defense: Her lawyer argued that Smith was not actually in traffic, so the trooper had no jurisdiction to halt her.Duncan lectured Smith about her defiance, noting that after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack, "There are more stringent controls being used, and I realize that as a senator you are very busy, but the fact remains that a trooper had asked for ID." Smith's past antics have included being accused of biting a cop in Brooklyn after a traffic altercation.

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Ada Smith was found guilty on Wednesday of failing to obey a direct order from a police officer last spring when she refused to hand over her government ID and drove through a security checkpoint at an Empire State Plaza parking garage.

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On the day of the incident, Smith and Butt argued, attracting the attention of State Police Trooper Michael Kovarovic, who was standing nearby.

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Kovarovic said Smith also refused to take her ID out and give it to him, then spewed profanities, put her car in drive and "sped" into the restricted lot, refusing his order to stop.

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Smith insisted she did not speed and proceeded forward because traffic was backing up behind her stopped car.She said she told the trooper she would continue their conversation at her parking space, but he never showed up.

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Smith questioned the veracity of the tape, saying it was "spliced" and wasn't clear enough to offer a good view of the driver's side door.

The extraordinary spate also includes a female senator, Ada Smith a Democrat from Queens, who is under investigation for allegedly harassing a gay aide - she denies it - as well as ongoing alarms about the extent to which Gov.

The call for Democratic state senators to attend an anger management class Tuesday came from one of the minority conference's most serenity-challenged members: Ada Smith of Queens.Smith, who issued the memo as conference chairwoman, was found guilty in March of failing to obey a direct order from a police officer when she refused to show ID and sped past a security checkpoint at an Empire State Plaza parking garage in 2003.The officer said Smith shouted obscenities and almost drove over his feet.In 1998, Smith was accused but never charged with biting a New York City police officer's hand during a traffic dispute.In 1996, a former legislative staffer said Smith threatened her with a knife.In both cases, Smith denied the allegation and no charges were filed.The lawmakers' ensemble known as The Budget Blues Boys plays again today for charity.

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Ada Smith, a Queens Democrat sometimes called the "Wild Woman of Albany," faced a criminal investigation for the second time in two years yesterday after an aide accused her of assault with a hot cup of coffee, officials said.

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Swoboda said no warrant had been issued to arrest Smith, who, a top Senate aide said, had fled Albany in the face of the allegations.

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Senate sources said Smith, 61, had what one called an "explosive confrontation" with a low-level, recently hired aide, Jennifer Jackson of Albany, a few days ago.

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Another Senate official said the aide had claimed Smith threatened her with bodily harm if she told anyone about the incident.Smith strongly denied the allegations."Nothing like that happened," Smith told The Post.Smith said Jackson resigned Tuesday, but she insisted the aide's departure had nothing to do with a confrontation.Smith has had repeated run-ins with the law.She was convicted in 2004 of disobeying a state trooper after she failed to stop at a security checkpoint at a parking garage near the Capitol.She was once subdued with Mace after allegedly biting a cop following a traffic altercation in Brooklyn, and she was also accused of threatening an aide with a meat cleaver.While presiding over weddings as a deputy city clerk, she was accused of assaulting a female witness with a garbage can lid and refusing to allow photos of ceremonies.

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Ada Smith in December after he told the Democrat he was fedup with her verbal abuse.Smith denied the allegations and said she sacked Mahlke from the $50,000-a-year post because he was disorganized, unproductive and annoyed other staffers."I wouldn't care if he was green, as long as he could do the job," said Smith, who also denied Mahlke's claim that she denounced him as "white trash.""I'm half white, so how am I going to call somebody white trash?"asked Smith.Mahlke, the openly gay vice president of the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens, claims Smith fired him because of his sexual orientation.

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Smith, 59, has had a number of brushes with the law, most recently this year, when she was convicted of disobeying a state trooper after she blew past a security checkpoint set up in an Albany garage after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.Smith was subdued with Mace after she allegedly bit a cop following a traffic altercation in Brooklyn in 1998.In 1996, she was accused of threatening an aide with a meat cleaver.Over the past 16 years, Smith has had more than 200 aides come and go from her office.LOAD-DATE: May 17, 2004